HTML

Draft

Definition

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the dominant language for web pages.

HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code (such as JavaScript) which can affect the behavior of Web browsers and other HTML processors.([Wikipedia, retrieved 12:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)])

This is just a short overview page. See also:

• HTML links
• XHTML

Popular Versions

HTML 2.0

• Published as RFC 1866 (november 1995)

HTML 3.2

• HTML 3.2 Reference Specification (Jan 1997)
• Many web pages still use 3.2. It displays ok on modern browsers

HTML 4.01

• HTML 4.01 (May 2001)

XHTML 1.0

• XHTML 1.0 (jan 2000).
• Formulates XHTML 4.01 in XML and some other minor changes

XHTML 1.1

• XHTML 1.1 (May 2001) adds minor changes to XHTML 1.0 and is described in modular form.

XHTML 2.0

• XHTML 2.0. This version is in draf status (as of Aug 2008)

HTML 5.0

• HTML 5, an update to XHTML 1.1 that includes a few interesting extensions, like the canevas elements.
• HTML 5 (Wikipedia)

Less popular versions

• HTML Tags (a CERN document of 1992)
• HTML 3.0 was an aborted attempt ....
• HTML 4.0 (dec 1997). It was the first series of standards that distinguised between strict, transitional (deprrecated elements allowed) and frameset.